Escape. Mix Tape

Taking the idea of the mix tape, (a collection of favourite music tracks), the session will take the form of an illustrated lecture featuring readings (tracks) from my own and others writings based around notions of ‘escape’.
How to escape? Music? Film? Drawing? Stories? The Wild? Can these things form a basis for ‘transendence’ from ‘every day’ life?  Each ‘track’/reading will be linked like you would a mixtape and each accompanied by a slide or projected image.
Readings include excerpts from Thoreau, Kafka, Proust, song lyrics, as well as my own texts. Many mixtape enthusiasts believe that by carefully selecting and ordering the tracks in a mix, an artistic statement can be created that is greater than the sum of its individual songs... From an aesthetic point of view, many enthusiasts believe that because a tape player, unlike a CD player, lacks the ability to skip from song to song, the mixtape needs to be considered in its entirety. This requires the mixtape creator to consider the transitions between songs, the effects caused by juxtaposing a soft song with a loud song, and the overall “narrative arc” of the entire tape.